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title: The oldest child's things deserve protecting too; a lock box or high… — Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest» · tree and pragmatics
description: The oldest child's things deserve protecting too; a lock box or high shelf is a fair ask. Who acts: things, lock box. A sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest», sentence 40

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The oldest child's things deserve protecting too; a lock box or high shelf is a fair ask.

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**Who acts:** things, lock box · **What happens:** deserve, protect, be · **To what, where:** fair ask

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, lock box), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:40
# text = The oldest child's things deserve protecting too; a lock box or high shelf is a fair ask.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ask	ask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present | the oldest child's things |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protect** | gerund | the oldest child's things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a lock box or high shelf | a fair ask |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest.lesson:40`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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